Urban growth and transportation

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1407-1440

  Duranton, Gilles ^a   Turner, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Instrumental variables; Interstate highways; Transportation; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN TRANSPORT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867804601     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rds010     Document Type: Article

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